Opinion: Bloomberg Guns for the NRA

Editorial page editor Paul Gigot on Bloomberg’s anti-gun campaign.

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... I ... see Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants a twelve million dollars thirteen stayed at ian pizza from a gun control ... but what's the NRA chief Wayne LaPierre said on Meet the Press on Sunday ... here on Capitol Hill ... what's going happen with gun safety legislation ... well you just heard Mayor Bloomberg but he's going to find out this is a country of the people by the people and for the people ... in he can spend enough of his twenty seven billion dollars ... to try to impose his will on the American public they don't wanna miss the restaurants that don't want them in their homes they don't want and tell them what food in the they sure don't want to tell what self-defense Firestone in he can buy America ... he's so ... Paul Shanti your ... mind is what we well I mean she PRED sickness around a little more seriously why think he's taking very seriously and I think that what you heard that was the ... idea that we're not here is not the ... most awful man ... and even in these kind of weepy given to the cost of dismissal which that was ... ah but I think they are concerned because they know this is of a political threat ... they dominated the politics of gun control since the mid nineteen nineties because Democrats to ... favored gun control in the past ... have to have concluded that ... they could lose in the swing districts if they oppose NRA priorities ... Bloomberg is basic coming in the Senate were to change the political dynamic but trying to change the politics in individual districts ... in in states where to spend liberally to do it so for the first time in about two decades ... the NRA has a real political opposition ... they have to meet and defeat ... is so smart and lumber to focus on background checks which ... seem to have wide support among you can ... well he I think it is true that skinny because it did the background checks to mean think about it for some who pose that now ... the attitude that depends on the nature of the checks the area in particular ... does not like a formal record keeping ... with the end of the system which would become the basis could become the basis for a national gun registry ... but if it's something short of that ... I think most Americans don't we don't really care ... um background checks seem sensible would see somebody as a criminal record or mental health record or something but ... I'm that's with the contention is no and that's I think Smarties as if you look at what we as believers running ... prefect of unit that ... will mean that matter if you still see Democrats and Senate ... guys like Harry Reid for example they ... couldn't get ... an assault weapons ban on because of the divisions within the Democratic Party well it did that's exactly the kind of balance of power the kind of change for trying to change the facts on the ground where the senators from the swing states cars using what ... I can see clean bowled for background checks because ... even though the NRA says no one else scored differently ... to the public opinion has changed enough that what I heard from him in the coming election the Bharti see Harry Reid's given up on the assault weapons but that's gone ... that's not gonna pass but the issue of the background check to some of these in advance on ammo